Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-05-06
LOCAL BREyITIEs.

The Sacramento river has receded to Is
feet inches
There are messages at the Western Union
/ Telegraph Office for Mrs. J. Shortridge and
John Wade.
The East-bound express train was so
large last evening that it had to be run In
two sections.
The machinery of the new electric light
works at Woodland has been started up
and works to a charm"
Nothing has yet been heard from Hugo
Kramer, the driver for the Pacific Brewery.
who disappeared few days ago.
Yesterday the steamer Dover cleared for
the upper Sacramento with merchandise
and lumber, and the San Joaquin, No. 3,
for San Francisco with grain and wood
The recent benefit performances given at
the Metropolitan Theater in aid of the
Towards put about $l60 into the treasury
of the Towards. The expenses were yery
heavy, amounting to over $500.
On Wednesday a three-year- old child of
John Drugo, who resides on the Yolo side
of the river, about five miles from Wash
ington, fell into the Sacramento and was
drowned. The body was recovered yester-
day morning.
A special train arrived from the south
about p. N. yesterday, bringing the pas
sengers that had been unable to come with
the regular train. Included were four car
loads of emigrants from Los Angeles and
vicinity, on their way East.
The average Signal Service temperature
yesterday was $50, which is 90 cooler than
the average for that day during nine years.
The highest and lowest temperature was
740 and 470, with fresh southerly winds and
clear to fair and clear weather.
These arrests were made yesterday ::
All Fun, by Deputy Sheriff Eldred, for mis-
demeanor; Charley Hughes and Joseph
Olmstead. by officers Frazee and Rider, for
being drunk; James Douglas, by officer
Mclaughlin, for disturbing the peace.
Fidelity Grove, No. 3, U. A. o. D., last
evening elected the following officers n.
A, A. ]. Comet; V. A, F. j. Clark; Treas
urer, a. Trope; Secretary, w. Avery Con-
ductor, NJ. Radonich J. G., A. Coresma;
o. G., j. Waddle; Trustee, A. A. Comet
The dwelling house of John McAllan,
one mile south of Roseville, was DESTROYED
by fire at o'clock last evening. Mr.. Nc
Allan and his wife were away all dav, and
the cause of the fire cannot be conjectured
Everything in the house was burned No
insurance.
j. Thurs, under arrest for contempt of
Court, still refuses to make an effort to give
bail. His case will come up in the Su-
perior Court to-day, and, unless he is able
to make satisfactory showing, he is apt to
find himself sentenced to stay of several
days in the county Jail.
There was no session of the Board of
Supervisors yesterday, the members hav-
ing doubtless gone ON an inspection of
the road to Beachs Grove. Tomorrow
they will go out to look at roads in the
northern portion of the county, the District
Attorney accompanying them.
The injunction suit of A ]. Percy VS..
Billy Mclaughlin was to have come up for
hearing in the Superior Court to-day on a
motion for the increase of the bond given
by Percy, but George A. knight, the lat
ter'S attorney, has requested q continuance
until the 18th. The motion to dissolve the
injunction against Mclaughlin will be
heard on the 10th.
The long looked for fish ladder has been
placed in Moores dam on Cache creek
1olo county, at last. We do not believe
however, says the Woodland Democrat
that it will give satisfaction to the people
Some think it should have been placed in
the DAM not clean outside of the abut-
ments. In its present location it would
take shrewd miner to find it.
Officer Frazee arrested, on Wednesday,
man named Martin ]. Donovan, on dis
patch from San Francisco accusing him of
forgery. Detective Dan Coffey and officer
Maloney came up from the Bay that night
to get him, but found that they did not
want him as badly as they did another
party, named McCann, who cannot be
found. They took Donovan back with them
yesterday afternoon.
State Controller Dunn has made arrange
ments with Philadelphia firm by which
the pure-wine stamps required by a recent
Act of the Legislature will be furnished by
June 1st in any desired quantity The law
goes into effect on that day. 1t was thought
for while that the purpose of the law
would be defeated, as the Legislature made
no provision for furnishing the stamps.
Dealers in wines do not wish to use them,
but if one or two do SO the others will have
70 follow suit.
The only case that came before the Su-
perior Court yesterday was that of Charles
Stone Jennie Stone, in Department Two.
Judge Holl appeared as counsel for plant
if, and, stating that General Hart, who had
been Stones attorney, had withdrawn, and
he had himself been retained so lately that
he was not familiar with the merits of the
case, requested a continuance until the 10th
instant, which was granted. An attach
ment was ordered to issue for George Stone,
a defaulting witness.
After nearly eighteen years of slow
dragging litigation the suit of Wright
VS.. Laugenour has been finally decided in
the Supreme Court of the United States in
favor of the plaintiff. The action involved
the title to 80 acres of swamp land of very
little value in Yolo county, but the case
was test one, and the title to great deal
of land similarly situated depended on the
result. The case has been tried and re-
tried, time and again, and many of the
most prominent attorneys in the State have
been engaged on one side or the other
The costs to both parties have been enor-
nous. c. P. Sprague has been the attorney
for Mr.. Wright from the first.